Pare people

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The Pare people are a Bantu-speaking ethnic group of northeastern Tanzania known for their terraced agriculture, ironworking history, and residence in the Pare Mountains near Mount Kilimanjaro.

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Pare people canonical 5

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Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Bantu people
ethnic group
agriculturalPractice terrace farming on mountain slopes
alsoKnownAs Asu people NERFINISHED
Wapare
colonialHistory incorporated into German East Africa
later under British Tanganyika
continent Africa
country Tanzania
countryOfCitizenship Tanzania
currentReligions Christianity
Islam
demographicStatus minority ethnic group in Tanzania
environment eastern Arc Mountains ecosystem
ethnolinguisticGroup Bantu peoples
surface form: Bantu
knownFor early iron smelting in northeastern Tanzania
intensive land management
soil and water conservation through terraces
languageFamily Bantu languages
locatedIn Pare Mountains
northeastern Tanzania
locatedNear Mount Kilimanjaro
mainCrops bananas
beans
coffee
maize
millet
modernState Tanzania
surface form: United Republic of Tanzania
neighboringGroups Chagga people
Maasai
surface form: Maasai people

Shambaa people NERFINISHED
Zigua people
partOf Tanzanian ethnic groups
primaryLanguage Pare language
region Kilimanjaro Region
Tanga Region
subsistenceType smallholder farming
traditionalEconomicActivity blacksmithing
cattle keeping
ironworking
terraced agriculture
trade
traditionalHomeland North Pare Mountains
South Pare Mountains
traditionalPoliticalOrganization chiefdoms
traditionalReligion African traditional religion
usesLanguage Chasu
Kipare

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Referenced by (5)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Kilimanjaro Region hasEthnicGroup Pare people
Moshi hasNearbyEthnicGroup Pare people
Same District hasEthnicGroup Pare people
Chagga people relatedEthnicGroup Pare people
Mwanga District hasEthnicGroup Pare people